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Title:

[Innovation and extermination--psychiatric research and "euthanasia" at the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic 1939-1945]

Document type:
Biography; Historical Article; Journal Article
Author(s):
Hohendorf, G; Roelcke, V; Rotzoll, M
Abstract:
The history of German psychiatry is characterized not only by innovative thought in the tradition of Kraepelin and Jaspers, but also by the "euthanasia" program that resulted in the killing of more than 100,000 psychiatric patients and mentally handicapped people. Exemplified by the Psychiatric Department at the University of Heidelberg, the relation between psychiatric research and the systematic killing of patients during the time of National Socialism is analysed. The first part of the paper...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Nervenarzt
Year:
1996
Journal volume:
67
Journal issue:
11
Pages contribution:
935-46
Language:
de
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9064554
Print-ISSN:
0028-2804
TUM Institution:
Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin
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